Building Stones and Clay-Products: A Handbook for Architects (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Building Stones and Clay-Products: A Handbook for ArchitectsThat at least an elementary knowledge of the subject of building stones and clay products is of importance to the architect few people will deny, since familiarity with their properties, durability, and, in the case of clay products, their methods of manufacture will enable him to select and use these materials more intelligently.At the same time, the preparation of an elementary work on the subject is not free from difficulties, for the reason that most architects have but a limited knowledge of geology and ceramic technology. The author has, therefore, attempted to state facts and explanations as simply as possible, and as a further aid in this direction has included a glossary at the end of the book.The general arrangement of the book follows the course of lectures given each year to the students in the College of Architecture of Cornell University, and it has been the encouraging reception which these received that has led the author to give them to the public.The work is not intended as an exhaustive treatise, but, in stead, aims to give simply the fundamentally important facts. It is therefore, beyond the scope of the book to take up any but the more important occurrences of building stone, and those who desire detailed information on this point will consult our standard American work, "Stones for Building and Decoration" by G. P. Merrill.Since the architect often desires to know how extensively and for what purposes the different building stones have been used, an attempt has been made to give a list of structures in which the more important ones at least have been placed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.